48GX serial comms (Mac)

[cdmackay]

(02-09-2019 05:34 PM)grsbanks Wrote:  The 48 supports Kermit natively. If you want it to do XMODEM then you need to install a library that the official ConnKit transfers to the calculator.

Archival of data on the 48 is similar to the 50g. Just place a global name in one of the ports (e.g. :0: MEM) and run ARCHIVE. If you then recall that object to the stack (you'll see that it's just a directory object) and store it in a HOME variable, you can then transfer it to your computer as you would any other variable. The down-side is, you can only do this as long as your calculator is less than half full!

Thanks very much. I didn't want to do XMODEM, as much as was wondering whether it had any advantage over the default Kermit?

Ta for the backup info; I do have a RAM card, so could backup to that first (although can I transfer direct from RAM card port 1 to serial? No, I think not) but if I have it merged then same problem, although will take me longer to fill it half-way